\nTuesday’s child is full of grace<\/strong>,
\nWednesday’s child is full of woe<\/strong>,
\nThursday’s child has far to go<\/strong>,
\nFriday’s child is loving and giving,
\nSaturday’s child works hard for a living,
\nBut the child who is born on the Sabbath<\/strong>,
\nIs bonny<\/strong> and blithe<\/strong> and good and gay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
fair of face<\/strong> = pretty or handsome What day of the week were you born on?\u00a0 Do you think the predictions in this rhyme have anything to do with how your life story or personality has played out?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 It is interesting to think about how we attribute certain thoughts or ideas to certain days of the week and how these ideas differ based on culture.\u00a0 Tomorrow I will be discussion what different days of the week mean to people in American culture in the current day.<\/p>\n * recite = repeat aloud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I discussed the origin of the names of the days of the week in English.\u00a0 To continue on this theme, today I am going to introduce you to a popular child’s nursery rhyme about the days of the week.\u00a0 Young children in the United States are often taught to recite* the days of the…<\/p>\n
\ngrace<\/strong> =\u00a0 simple and elegant
\nwoe<\/strong> = grief, sorrow, or sadness
\nfar to go<\/strong> = to have a long time or distance to go to reach one’s destination (This refers to the god Thor – related to Thursday – who had a long way to go because he couldn’t get over the rainbow to heaven.)
\nSabbath<\/strong> = Sunday\u00a0 (This is considered a day for worship and rest in most Western and Christian cultures.)
\nbonny<\/strong> = attractive
\nblithe<\/strong> = happy or joyous
\ngay<\/strong> = in older dialects of English this word means merry or cheerful<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2012\/06\/monday.png\")